From Around the O
March 22, 2018—UO anthropology professor Lynn Stephen, a renowned scholar of Latin American studies, has been awarded a prestigious Philip H. Knight Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences.
March 6, 2018—Kohnjehr Woman, a book of poetry by , has been nominated as a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.
Lara, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate, is an award-winning poet and fiction writer whose novels include Erzulie’s Skirt (RedBone Press 2006) and When the Sun Once Again Sang to the People (KRK Ediciones 2011).
Marie A. Vitulli, professor emerita of mathematics and a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate, recently published a pair of articles relevant to Women's History Month in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 65, No. 3. One is a 25-year-long study of gender (and citizenship) differences in first jobs of PhDs from US institutions. The other is about Dr. Vitulli’s difficulties in writing women in math into Wikipedia. Here is the online link to the issue: http://www.ams.org/notices
A new book by CSWS faculty affiliate Mai-Lin Cheng “explores the importance to Romantic literature of a concept of human interest." British Romanticism and the Literature of Human Interest was published in December 2017 by Bucknell University Press and co-published by Rowman & Littlefield. It is part of Bucknell’s Series in Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850.
Mai-Lin Cheng is an assistant professor of literature in the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.
January 23, 2018—Like so many others, we are saddened to learn of the passing on Monday of the great writer Ursula K. Le Guin. The news came through a breaking news announcement in the New York Times.
Free & open to the public
Panel Discussion: April 25, 3:00 – 4:30 PM Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Ford Lecture Hall, 1430 Johnson Lane, 97403 UO campus Light reception: 2:30 – 3 p.m. JSMA Ford Lecture Hall
Knight Library Browsing Room 1501 Kincaid St. Free event Limited seating
“All too many people and communities are named defective and deficient in a thousand different ways. Those words are weapons used to create ‘bad’ and disposable body-minds. Through poetry, storytelling, and history, Eli Clare unpacks the power of ‘defective,’ exploring how it is rooted in ableism and wielded by white supremacy to strengthen racism.”
Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus
Free & open to the public
McKenzie Hall Room 375 1101 Kincaid St. UO Campus
Laila Lalami will be our keynote speaker for the 7th annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium on April 25. Her keynote talk is titled “The Border and Its Meaning: Forgotten Stories.” Details: http://csws.uoregon.edu/2018nwws/
In an addition to being an award-winning novelist and a Pulitzer finalist, Lalami writes the “Between the Lines” column for The Nation.
Erb Memorial Union Crater Lake North
CSWS Faculty Affiliates at the University of Oregon
Alphabetical Listing of Faculty with Book & Documentary Film Publications 2014-2018
sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society in conjunction with the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs
Portland 7 pm Wednesday, May 2 SEIU 503 Hall, 401 SE Foster Rd.
Eugene 7 p.m. Thursday, May 3 Ford Alumni Center 1720 E. 13th Ave.
Featuring , executive director and found member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance
300 Villard Hall 1109 Old Campus Lane University of Oregon
Sangita Gopal, associate professor of cinema studies, will present a talk entitled “Bourgeois Extreme: Genre and Global Flows” as part of the Department of Comparative Literature’s “What Matters To Me” series on Friday, May 11, at 4:00 p.m.
Professor Gopal teaches in the Department of Cinema Studies, the Department of English, and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
Jane Grant Conference Room Hendricks Hall 330 1408 University St. By invitation only RSVP: cswsevents@uoregon.edu
“The Gendered Organization of Migrant Domestic Work”
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall 1408 University St. UO campus
Events take place at: Knight Library, Browsing Room and Gerlinger Lounge Time: 9 am to 7:30 pm Free & open to the public
For the full schedule, go to: “Justice Across Borders: Gender, Race and Migration in the Americas”
Knight Law Center Lewis Lounge, 1515 Agate St. UO campus Printable poster PDF
Speaker: Sarah A. Seo, Associate Professor, University of Iowa College of Law
Lewis Lounge Knight Law Center 1515 Agate St. UO campus Printable poster PDF
Inaugural Lecture: Race, Ethnicities, and Inequalities Colloquium
Khiara Bridges teaches at Boston University with a joint appointment in the School of Law and the Anthropology Department.
Discussants
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The most recent UO Today episode features Kristin Yarris, assistant professor of international studies and the director of the new UO global health minor.
Miller Room
Erb Memorial Union
1222 E. 13th Ave.
“Walmart in China: How are Chinese workers confronting the world’s largest company?”
A Lecture Series Sponsored by the UO Labor Education & Research Center Spring 2018
145 Straub Hall 1451 Onyx St. UO campus
Veterans Speak: Identity, Community, Resistance Disruption
The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced that Amalia Gladhart, a professor of Spanish and Head of the UO Department of Romance Languages, will receive a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, one of 22 literature translation fellowships for fiscal year 2018. Gladhart will translate Jaguars' Tomb, a work of Angélica Gorodischer.
Due Date: November 30, 2017 by 5 p.m.
Applications for CSWS Travel Grants are due Nov. 30. These small grants (up to $300) are available only for UO graduate students, for travel expenses to be incurred during AY 2017 - 2018. These grants provide partial support for travel to present papers that relate to women and gender at a conference, or for a professional activity related to women and gender. Funding is contingent on the paper/panel acceptance at the conference or workshop. CSWS will prioritize requests from students with partial department support.
Alder 111 Alder Building 15th & Alder
A Book Symposium with Discussants:
Jane Grant Conference Room 330 Hendricks Hall UO campus Printable PDF
CSWS Works-in-Progress Talk: NOTE THE TIME CHANGE TO 10 A.M.
“Unpacking Pariah(s): The Black Queer Feminist Liberation Plot and the Politics of Black (Sexual) Articulation”
Video link for “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History” with Walidah Imarisha
Here is the link to the video on the UO Channel: https://media.uoregon.edu/channel/archives/12247
This lecture took place on October 12, 2017 at Lillis Hall on the University of Oregon campus to packed audience.
From the Oregon Daily Emerald, our award-winning student newspaper, a report on the CSWS-sponsored talk by Walidah Imarisha: “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?”: Speech at UO explores topic
Students, faculty and alumni lined the walls and filled the aisles in Lillis 182 Thursday evening to hear speaker Walidah Imarisha’s talk titled “Why Aren’t There More Black People in Oregon?: A Hidden History.” Many people were turned away due to lack of seating and encouraged to watch the live ...
CSWS faculty affiliate Lamia Karim, an associate professor in the University of Oregon Department of Anthropology, received a Post-Ph.D. Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research to conduct ethnographic research on post-industrial workers in the global apparel industry in Bangladesh.
October 6, 2017—In his State of the University address, UO President Michael Schill talked about coming together in a shared sense of purpose.
CSWS proudly notes President Schill’s generous remarks that highlighted the research, teaching, and creative work of many CSWS leaders and faculty affiliates. These include CSWS director Michelle McKinley, CSWS Advisory Board member Gabriela Martínez, and faculty affiliates Marsha Weisiger, Karen Guillemin, Tannaz Farsi, and Joanna Goode, among many other UO faculty.
CSWS Editor’s Note: is a CSWS faculty affiliate and an associate professor in the UO Department of Ethnic Studies.
Source: Why Oregon should care about Puerto Rico
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For The Register-Guard
Editor’s Note: Congratulations to Rebecca Flynn, a member of the CSWS Advisory Board, and to Ellen Herman, a CSWS faculty affiliate.
From Around the O
September 27, 2017—Scott Pratt, executive vice provost for academic affairs, announced that Ellen Herman, professor of history and faculty co-director of University of Oregon’s Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, and Rebecca Flynn, managing co-director of the Wayne Morse Center, will be joining the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs in interim roles.
University of Oregon Poetry reading by Joy Harjo Straub Hall, Room 156 1451 Onyx St. Free & open to the public Printable Poster PDF
Publishing for the first time via Issuu.com, CSWS is proud to share with you our 2017 CSWS Annual Review, which includes an interview with the inimitable Cherríe Moraga, a review of last year’s main events, articles about CSWS-supported research written by faculty and graduate students, news of honors and awards among our faculty affiliates, and more. We are also delighted to unveil our new CSWS wordmark.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Erin Gallo (Department of Romance Languages), whose article, just published in the prestigious Hispanic Review, was researched and completed with the help of a CSWS graduate student grant.
